Travel Blogs from Chino

Happy birthday from Japan I had no idea what would happen to me to day. As normal we woke up early to a free breakfast then checked out. We took the shinkansen to Nagoya where it started snowing. Then it started really snowing. Snow everywhere. From Nagoya we took a express to Matsumoto. The next 2.5 hours was countryside, mountains, rivers and snow. As we climbed higher and higher the snow did as well. I got many amazing shots.

... to the hospital around 6 for the night shift and I came back to the kids. We went out to a Korean restaurant for dinner that was very funky. You places your order into a computer at your table and then BBQ your own meat at the table. So I guess you could say that I cooked dinner ...

Matsumoto is a very cute city with its own castle (not that I have seen it). Luke will take the kids out today to do some exploring. Mason doing really well, he can stand with weight on his good leg on crutches. Not allowed to put any more than 10kg of weight on his bad leg for 6 weeks. He has endured everything thrown at him from wash downs to suppositories and nothing has phased him. Very ...

... on the second floor (that’s different) so on the second floor we checked in and found our room on the eighth floor. We dumped our bags and headed back out for dinner. I lead Mark to some nearby restaurants and we had a simple meal of rice topped with beef and pork. We then returned to our hotel room to rest and decide on the activities of tomorrow.

It is the last day our rail passes are valid so I was planning on a day trip to Nikko but we will see how things turn out. ...

... force was sieging a castle and fighting their way through the rough terrain and enemies. We then spied small cannon in the corner of the room. This was displayed with a black and white drawing of a horseman with a large rifle and a similar drawing but the man with the large rifle was on a boat with a rower.

We then came to the stairs leading us up to the next floor, the room was dark and didn’t have any windows or lamps. This floor was the secret floor that ...